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Last Name Piso

Given Name Willem

alt. Names W. P. ; Wilhelm Pies / Guilielmus Piso / Guilherme Piso / Gulielmi Pisonis ;

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Year born 1611 in Amsterdam

Year died 1678

Place of death Leiden

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Education medicine in Caen 1633

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for Nassau-Siegen ; Georg Marcgraf / George Marcgrave (1610-1648): Historia Naturalis Brasiliae ; Pies: De Indiae uriusque re Naturali et Medica (1648) ;

Patronage Baron Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen ; Dutch West India Company ;

Collaborators artist Albert Eckhout ; Frans Post ; Pieter Post ; -> Georg Marcgraf ;

Techniques zoological, natural history, and medical drawing ;

Sample(s) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historia_Naturalis_Brasiliae_-_Guilherme_Piso_-_1648.jpg ;

Archival sources Familienstiftung Pies-Archiv, Forschungszentrum Vorderhunsrück e.V. ;

Published sources AKL ; Dance 1989 ; Eike Pies: W. P. 2004/10 ; Kury 2014: 30, 60, 66 & 214-5 ; Flora Brasileira 2009: 20-21

other Expedition physician to Brazil 1637-44.

Further Places of Activity: Brazil and France.

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